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farss wrote on 5/25/2009, 6:13 AM
In the continuing saga in the next post someone will rebutt one meaningless statement with another like " That's utter BS, it's working much better for me"

Dear fellow Vegas users, please, please can we be specific.
What are you doing, what sort of footage are you working with etc, etc.
Many of us might like to help. The first thing we'll try to do is reproduce your problem. I cannot speak for everyone else here but I have zero intention of trying every possible type of media that Vegas can handle in every possible type of scenario in some effort to help or offer meaningfull comments. Life is just too short for that.

Bob.
FilmingPhotoGuy wrote on 5/25/2009, 7:57 AM
SV9 32bit
AVCHD - 1920x1080
14:45 PM :)
farss wrote on 5/25/2009, 2:40 PM
Which 32bit mode and why are you using it, see current thread on this very topic.
In my brief tests XDCAM EX footage seems to playout the same in V9 as V8. I guess I should try to get my hands on our AVCHD crash cam to see what all the fuss is about however whenever I'll be forced to work with footage from it step one will be to transcode it to a workable codec.

Bob.
DataMeister wrote on 5/25/2009, 3:56 PM
Still not getting much information are we.

I'm assuming it's Vegas 32bit version rather than 32bit mode. But I could be mistaken since there are two possibilities.

What camera do you have?
What bitrate was the AVCHD recorded at (if user defineable)?
Is your processor an AMD or Intel Quadcore?
Windows XP, Vista, or 7 and at 32 or x64 bit?


Edit......
I guess if had looked at your profile I would have seen that info except for bitrate of the AVCHD.

So the next question is do you have both VP8 and VP9 installed side by side and they have different performance on the same clip?

FilmingPhotoGuy wrote on 5/27/2009, 2:29 AM
Ok here it is:

Canon HF10 17 mbps 1920x1080
Intel 2.83 quadcore Gigabyte X48 mobo
GForce 800 GT
2 GB 1333 RAM
MS XP64bit SP2

All the above works satisfactory in SV8b. I usualy work in "preview, auto" mode when editing AVCHD but noticed that the same project stutters very badly in SV9 but in SV8b it's very smooth. It seems that AVCHD is handled better in SV8 than SV9.

- Craig

Rory Cooper wrote on 5/28/2009, 2:11 AM
Craig

Someone else has also mentioned the same thing regarding AVCHD

I have just installed 09 also found Canon AVCHD 24 mbps a bit jerky on a dual core compare to 08
I will check on quad core at home

Audio sync is going to be a problem

In the meantime use TMPEG to rip to mpg 1920 x 1080

See you on sun for the shoot
srode wrote on 5/28/2009, 3:25 AM
I have noticed that the first time I play a section of AVCHD 1920x1080 in the preview window it's terrible - the second time it's much smoother and really quite smooth. The events used are uneditted - no effects just cross fades

Looking at task manager - the my CPU is used about 60% the first time - bumping to near 100% at transitions. While my Preview RAM is set to 6Gb, vegas is only using about 1 to 2gb. total system page files about 2.11gb.

Second and third time through the CPU utilization is down to about 10% or less, page filing is up to over 5gb, RAM is up to around 5 to 6GB. It seems to take a while to load up the page file and RAM for smooth play - using prerender to RAM for preview the amount of the timeline that can be covered is very short so this doesn't help really with these files.

All this is with the project properties set as HD 1920x1080 60i 29FPS which is matching the source video from my Sony SR11. I also noticed that choosing 8 bit pixels instead of 32 bit full range looks noticably dull in the preview but speeds things up a bit - still not smooth the first pass - but smoother than 32 bit. first pass